Big Gods : How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict /

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How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with ""Big Gods""--The great monotheistic and polytheistic fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Norenzayan, Ara, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychology > Religious aspects.
Psychology, Religious.
Cooperation > Religious aspects.
Conflict management > Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
psychology of religion.
Gestion des conflits > Aspect religieux.
Foi > Developpement > Aspect psychologique.
Psychologie religieuse.
Faith development > Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with ""Big Gods""--The great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the same, and answer each other. Once human minds could conceive of supernatural beings, Norenzayan arg
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781400848324

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